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Various Computer Offences and the Related Sections in the Information Technology Act


Cyber Crime Brief Description Sections Relevant in IT Act.2000
Cyber Stalking Stealthily Following a person, tracking his internet chats. 43, 65, 66
Intellectual Property Crime Source Code Tampering etc. 65
Pornography Publishing Obscene in Electronic Form 67
Child Pornography Publishing Obscene in Electronic Form involving children 67, 67 (2) under proposal
Video Voyeurism Transmitting Private / Personal Video’s On internet and mobiles Proposed 72(3)
Salami Attack Deducting small amounts from an account without coming in to notice, to make big amount 43, 65, 66
E-Mail Bombing Flooding an E-mail box with innumerable number of E-mails, to disable to notice important message at times. 66
Phishing Bank Financial Frauds in Electronic Banking Proposed data Protection Provisions under 43, 65, 66, 419 A
Personal Data  Theft Stealing personal data 43 (2)
Identity Theft Stealing cyberspace identity information of  individual 66, 43
Spoofing Stealing credentials using ,Friendly and familiar GUI’ s Provisions Under 43, 65, 66 and 66
Worms Trojan Horses, Virus etc. Different Hacking mechanisms 66, 43
Sabotage of Computer Taking Control of Computer With the help of malware. 66
DOS, DDOS Denial of Service Flooding a computer With Denial of Services Attacks, DDOS is Distributed DOS attack 43, 66
Web Defacing Web Pages Defacing 43, Provisions Under 65, 66
Logic Bomb Attack triggers on an event 43, 66
ATM Fraud / EDI Financial Fraud in ATM and e-Commerce EDI 43, Provisions Under 65, 66
Data Diddling Modifying data for the process and retaining data integrity in the structure 43, 65
Money Laundering on Web Temporarily Keeping a Web Service for Collecting money illegally, Without registering with the any regulating authority for avoiding tax. 43, 65, 66 and 72
Spam Unsolicited E-mails 43